Bars, blues, and booze
Subtitle: stories from the drink house
By: Emily D. Edwards
Series: American made music series; American made music series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781496806390; 9781496806406
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Anecdotes; Interviews; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Musicians; Music and race; Blues (Music); Alcohol use; Blues musicians; History
Description: "Bars, Blues, and Booze lively bar tales from the intersection of black and white musical cultures in the South. Many of these stories do not seem dignified, decent, or filled with uplifting euphoria, but they are real narratives of people who worked hard with their hands during the week to celebrate the weekend with music and mind-altering substances. These are stories of musicians who may not be famous celebrities but are men and women deeply occupied with their craft - professional musicians stuck with a day job. The collection also includes stories from fans and bar owners, people vital to shaping a local music scene. The stories explore the 'crossroads,' that intoxicated intersection of spirituality, race, and music that forms a rich, southern vernacular. In personal narratives, musicians and partygoers relate tales of narrow escape (almost getting busted by the law while transporting moonshine), of desperate poverty (rat-infested kitchens and repossessed cars), of magic (hiring a root doctor to make a charm), and loss (death or incarceration). Here are stories of defiant miscegenation, of forgetting race and going out to eat together after a jam, and then not being served. Assorted boasts of improbable hijinks give the 'blue collar' musician a wild, gritty glamour and emphasize the riotous freedom of their fans, who sometimes risk the strong arm of southern liquor laws in order to chase the good times."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304), filmography (pages 305-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Buckets of Blood to the Better Clubs : Defining the Drink House. The Working-Class Drink House / Tim Duffy; title: The Bloody Drink House / Ralph R. Speas; title: The Campaign Liquor / Michael Bennett; title: Getting Started in the Drink House / Big Ron Hunter; title: Neighborhood Drink Houses / Lorenzo "Logie" Meachum; title: Driving a Cab / Rob Slater; title: A Chapel Hill Drink House / John Dee Holeman; title: Juke Joints and Tobacco Barns / Max Drake; title: They Wanted Me to Run a Drink House / Robin Stamps Doby Easter; title: The Nightclub Is Classier / Roy Roberts; title: Introductions to a Juke Joint / T. L. "Poppa T" Lineberry; title: The Liquor House Rules / Moneek Allah; title: The Bar as a Music Venue. The Goal Is Not to Lose Money / Mel Melton; title: SomeWhere Else Super Jams / Burley Hayes; title: I Played with Lightnin' Hopkins / Max Drake; title: Misbehaving Women / Michele Seidman; title: Don't Spit in My Harp / Mike "Wezo" Wesolowski; title: Blues, Booze, and "Occupying a Dive." Chick Willis; title: White Kids on the Chitlin Circuit. Rob Baskerville and Penny Zamagni; title: Muscle Shoals, Dry Counties, and the Hooch Run. Shoals Folklore and W. C. Handy / William McDonald; title: House-Party Blues / Max D. Russell; title: Eight Studios in a Dry County / David Johnson; title: Muscle Shoals Sound and the Line / George Lair; title: Hot Pursuit / R. Wayne Good; title: The Garage Band / Steve Kelly; title: The Hooch Run / Blane Edwards; title: Juke Joints, Bootleg, and Moonshine. A Mississippi Juke Joint / Bill Moore; title: Guns in a Motel Lounge / Joe Bill Loudermilkp; title: Chicken Wire and Cockfighting in Louisiana / Mel Melton; title: A Motel Lounge with Boxing / Mark "Buddyro" Harrison; title: The Big Speakers / A.J. Diggs; title: The Sheriff Puts On a Show / Steve Kelly; title: Roots : Music, Magic, and Myths from the Drink House. Roots in Her Drink; title: Root Doctors and Blood-Stopping after the Bar Fight; title: A Jilted Lover and "Love Me Bath Oil"; title: Adam and Eve Oil; title: Rob Baskerville and Penny Zamagni Sell Commercial Hoodoo Products; title: Binding a Judge to Do Right; title: A Truck Driver and Foot Track Powder; title: Clyde"Pop"Ferguson Explains the Black Cat Bone; title: Be Careful Where You Leave Your Stuff; title: Abe Reid and the Diamond Dust; title: Mel Melton, Papa Mojo, and the Raccoon Penis Bone; title: Law Stay Away Powder; title: Finding Power and Luck; title: Feeding the Music. The After Party / Pat Freitag; title: Pat's Kitchen / Chuck Cotton; title: Supper for James Brown / Naomi Alexander; title: Piedmont Personalities. Guitar Slim and the Paddy Rollers / Logie Meachum; title: Guitar Slim and "Ghosting" / David Bolton; title: Guitar Slim and Guitar Gabe / Tim Duffy; title: Guitar Gabe Pleases the Judge / Big Ron Hunter; title: Guitar Gabe and the Walking Stick / Mike Bennett; title: Guitar Gabe's Little Roadie / Abe Reid; title: Sweet Daddy's Two-Dollar Bill / Rob Slater; title: Even Chocolate Cowboys Get the Blues. Roy Roberts; title: Traveling Blues : Road Stories and Odd Venues. Finding a Place to Stay /. Pop Ferguson; title: Blood Money / Mark "Buddyro" Harrison; title: Agents, Tobacco Road, and the B&L Warehouse / Terry VunCannon; title: Studios, Horse Farms, and Asparagus Fields / Melva Houston; title: Romancing the Festival and the Prison Gig / Eric Gales (a.k.a. Raw Dawg); title: Wezo Gigs in Prison / Mike "Wezo" Wesolowski; title: The Broken String / Max Drake; title: Dry County Cooler and Parachute Parties / Terry VunCannon; title: Love at Smilefest / Robin Stamps Doby Easter; title: The Agent and the Frat Party / Roy Robertsp. 257; title: Baby Boomer Blues : The Crossroads of Culture. Hippies at Smitty's Juke Joint / Adrianne Carageorge; title: A Walk to the Stax Museum / Rob Slater; title: Hippie Sings the Blues / Sheila Grady Carlisle; title: The Bigger Story the Smaller Stories Tell.